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Morris Dalla Costa
Sun Media There's one thing both sides agree on. The Queen's Golden Gaels were fortunate to go home from London with an opening-game win over the Western Mustangs on Sept. 3. Not that it matters much now. An entire Ontario university football season has passed and both teams have gone through a lot. "I'd like to think both teams have improved a season's worth," said Queen's coach Pat Sheahan. "I look at both teams being even in game one, I don't know how much more even I would have been comfortable with, with the game going into overtime like that. It's going to be a great evaluation on how far both teams have come." |
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On the evidence, coach Pat Sheahan and
offensive co-ordinator Warren Goldie never
forgot the hard lesson of Nov. 1, 2003, the last
time the Queen's Golden Gaels hosted a
playoff game.
That infamous upset overtime playoff loss to
Laurier that we Queen's types don't talk about
has been alluded to in conversation more than
once this week. For some friends who are
more well-adjusted 25-to-34-year-olds and
thus less obsessive about Queen's football,
that game is a point of reference. It inculcated
a belief that every Queen's team, no matter
what its record, has some crucial design flaw,
like the Death Star. It makes for a superficial
parallel since this team is at least favoured in
Saturday's OUA quarter-final vs. the Western
Mustangs (1 p.m., cfrc.ca) as those '03 Gaels
were. Well, it could happen again, but chances
are it won't, since Sheahan, Goldie, and Co.
have changed tactics.
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Morris Dalla Costa, Sun Media
WATERLOO -- The Western Mustangs' regular season isn't going to leave anyone quaking in fear. "I don't think teams want to match up against us even though we had a slow start." -- Mustangs' quarterback Mike Faulds. But the regular season is over and any loss from here on in and it's season over. That's the kind of pressure that worries everyone. So while the Mustangs have had a frighteningly mundane season, they are the type of team no one really wants to meet in the playoffs. |
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Posted By Claude Scilley
It was, Rob Bagg insisted, no big deal. At least, not so much for him. "Danny Brannagan had a great game. His placement of the ball was great," Bagg said, first deferring to his quarterback when analysing the second-greatest receiving game in the history of Canadian intercollegiate football. Bagg caught nine passes for 341 yards Saturday, as the Queen's Golden Gaels closed their regular Ontario University Athletics football season with a 54-24 win over the Toronto Blues. Bagg was gracious afterwards. |
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The Western Mustangs' fourth straight win
leaves them confident heading into Saturday's
playoff game at Queen's.
"We're the team no one wants to see in the playoffs." -- Western safety Matt Carapella. Ryan Pyette, Sun Media WATERLOO -- Western safety Matt Carapella stood near the centre of the field at University Stadium and gazed proudly at the scoreboard where a big "3" hung under the Waterloo Warriors' name. "See that," he said after the top-ranked Western defence held Waterloo to a first- quarter field goal and Randy McAuley rushed for three touchdowns in a 37-3 demolition of the Warriors for the Mustangs' fourth straight win to secure the sixth and final playoff berth on the last day of the Ontario university football regular season. "Three points. Our defence has been incredible the last four games. We have a ton of confidence right now and it's going to carry over. We're going to Queen's next week (for a quarter-final in Kingston) and we can't wait to get there. |
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